Jürg Schwitter studied medicine in Zurich, was trained in internal medicine and subsequently in cardiology at the hospitals of Glarus and Zurich. He completed a postdoc at the University of California in San Francisco under Professor Charles B. Higgins in the field of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. In 1998 he returned to the Clinic of Cardiology at the University Hospital of Zurich and served here as a senior physician. He established cardiac MRI both clinically and in terms of scientific research. Jürg Schwitter published in the best journals of cardiovascular medicine including Circulation. Some of his papers have been the most frequently cited publications of the University of Zurich in the last few years. In due recognition of his merits he was appointed Head of Cardiac MRI and Professor of Cardiac Imaging at Centre Hospitalier Vaudois in May 2009.